Allied Warships

USCGC Westwind (WAGB 281)

Icebreaker of the Wind class

NavyThe United States Coast Guard
TypeIcebreaker
ClassWind 
PennantWAGB 281 
Built byWestern Pipe & Steel Co. (San Francisco, California, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down24 Aug 1942 
Launched31 Mar 1943 
Commissioned18 Sep 1944 
End service21 Feb 1945 
History

Transferred to the Soviet Union under Lend-Lease on 21 February 1945 being renamed Severnyj Poljus.
Returned to the US in December 1951.
Recommissioned by the USCoast Guard on 22 September 1952 as Westwind.
Decommissioned in 1988.

 

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